Thank you for that link. That feature does work for me too, but I still can't search thru current postings on the Exchange forums. That's what I'm primarily interested in searching. Thanks to mrbrownthumb, I posted a request to fix the Search function in the Suggestions forum. Here is a link that might be useful: My posting in the suggestions forum.

I like the Software running the forum, I find it Fantastic. I do. -- Someone in their estimation decided Not to give to forum users many of the options that are given to them in other forum Software. E.g. to quote each other in subsequent posts by clicking on "quote", to post twice with no barriers to doing so, to use spaces to express meaning (all extra spaces get deleted, and extra carriage returns too, so you cannot easily add extra interline spacing), to post without reading & reviewing one's own post first, to know how many "times read", how many people have clicked on a thread. Between now and the 22nd Century, human society might begin to choose what is ultimately useless information, like how many people have clicked on the thread since it was first created. Let's understand that we don't need to know that level of detail. What we really want to know is whether the thread is worth reading and that depends on concepts and quality of contributors' input: these two things can be tracked on the side -- and eventually included as a tool in a far future version of this forum. I'm assuming you are prepared to look into the future. There are some irritants but they are of little importance. E.g. CAPS in subject line get bounced to lower-case. It is easy to program into the software a few text management constraints that then surprise You and some others, but that ultimately are a Good Thing to work around and to accept as a good thing instead of thinking that you ought to have more and more options like text formatting. I personally vote in favor of programming that brings us all back to basic text, so all use of Upper Case IN ENTIRE WORDS be converted into lower case so that upper case only be available for word-initial use. Don't love the search function here... the way it's date-oblivious and doesn't allow you to select a date-RANGE. Hits for a particular keyword brings up a thread from 5 YEARS ago, followed by one from 5 DAYS ago, followed by one from 5 MONTHS ago, etc... But workarounds are easy, and in the future an access tool would get around it easily. Let's discuss bigger things: what would be useful to help you track the things you want to track and to find the information you want and to call upon the right community (people) when you need them and to be relatively sure that your requests are well received -- this would be a tool for which I would pay to have special access.

What I always do now is use google. I type in what I want to search followed by gardenweb. So if I want to search marble countertops, in the Google search box I'd type: marble countertops gardenweb The first thing that comes up is usually an ad for Lowe's or something... The next thing is a paragraph looking thing that looks smushier than the results below it. It's ALL GW results and right below it in smaller writing it says "more results from gardenweb.com>>" CLICK THAT. The next pages are NOTHING BUT GW RESULTS. If you bookmark that page and save it to your favorites, you can search from that page from now on. The "site.ths.gardenweb.com" can stay in the searchbox and you would just change out what's in the rest of the google search box for your search. It's really super easy. It sounds like more steps than it is. Once I figured that out, it became the only way I searched GW. I found out that threads get purged from the site after a while but stay archived in google. There's still no chronological order. But it's much more helpful than trying to do a search here.

I hope this link works, Mudlady.. I'll test it before I leave this forum. But...if it doesn't...enter the "Kindle+Fire+for+Dummies" into any one of your search engines [i.e. Google, duckduck, Bing] and it should bring up a long list of "Dummy" books to assist you with the operation of your new Kindle. Additionally...there are a myriad of Dummy books explicitly for computers and their operation. To that...let me add...that you're doing far better...and are braver than me. :-) I don't own a Kindle [or any similar product] and my cell phone is still the flip up kind. I'm loosing my sight to macular degeneration and over the next several years...it's anyone's guess as to what, if anything I may be able to see/operate. But I do have your determination so I forge on...undaunted. Good luck with your latest project. Kindle Dummy help [click on this link] of enter the URL below into your browser. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Kindle+Fire+for+Dummies&ia=products Anne